23 October 2014

The Swedish government has agreed to finance the construction and launch of a 50-kilogram satellite into low Earth orbit to conduct optical studies of mesospheric gases for two years, the Swedish National Space Board (SNSB) said 22 October.

The Operational Land Imager on the Landsat 8 satellite acquired this natural-colour view of Bermuda. The image was acquired on 18 October, a day after Hurricane Gonzalo passed through, and shows the effect the storm had on the sediment surrounding Bermuda.

22 October 2014

While space debris was the uncontrolled adversary in the award-winning space thriller film "Gravity," space debris, also known as "space junk," is an ongoing real-life concern for teams managing satellites orbiting Earth, including NOAA-NASA's Suomi National Polar-orbiting Partnership, or Suomi NPP, satellite.

23 October 2014

On 10 September, "Vital Signs: Pulse of Our Planet" premiered at the Smithsonian's National Air and Space Museum, Washington, showcasing some of NASA's most exciting Earth observations of our dynamic planet. These science visualisations act as a time capsule of our Earth system, bringing storms, global fires, Arctic sea ice loss and the behaviour of carbon to life on screen.

This database is based on the book of Herbert J. Kramer Observation of the Earth and its Environments and describes over 600 missions in detail. Online updated version of "Earth Observation History of Technical Introduction" available as of January 02, 2017.